Global TESOL for the 21st Century

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Heath Rose. Global TESOL for the 21st Century

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Global TESOL for the 21st Century

Founding Editor: Viv Edwards, University of Reading, UK

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Native-speakerism is underpinned by the concept of ‘Othering’, because the ideology creates dichotomous categories. Speakers are categorised according to their differences rather than the characteristics they share. Native-speakerism is seen to uphold unequal power dynamics in TESOL, and is especially prevalent in teacher hiring practices, where many advertisements still explicitly place a teachers’ nativeness as an essential hiring criterion, and thus a barrier to professional opportunities (Selvi, 2010).

Other scholars in TESOL have explored the othering of NNESTs in terms of centre-periphery theory. In the TESOL industry, various powerful ‘centres of English’ (i.e. native speakers and native speaking countries) have the lion’s share of influence, while others are related to the ‘periphery’. There is an imbalance in power between the centre and periphery, which feeds into all related decisions in language teaching policy and practice. Hilgendorf (2018) states:

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